FTFA Mozilla, Reddit, 4chan, the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are among the 86 different organizations that have co-signed the letter, and they have also launched a new campaign online, "StopWatching.us," which invites web users to add their signatures to the petition top secret DHS No-Fly-List as well.

Isn't the 4chan way to track down all the politicians' and spooks' home addresses and telephone numbers, then troll them IRL, get them fired and investigated for child porn, make threats against their families, and eventually drive them all to suicide?

CygnusDarius:Here's something that I don't get. They've been gathering data just from US citizens?.

Well, I've been refining my modern definition of irony, see what you think:

American citizens who complain the government is surreptitiously spying on them; while telling all their friends exactly what they're doing on Twitter, posting updates and pictures of their lunches on Facebook, and asking OnStar for precise directions from where they are to where they want to go.

What I don't get is why the government even needs to gather data. They could just update their friends list from time to time.

Gyrfalcon:CygnusDarius: Here's something that I don't get. They've been gathering data just from US citizens?.

Well, I've been refining my modern definition of irony, see what you think:

American citizens who complain the government is surreptitiously spying on them; while telling all their friends exactly what they're doing on Twitter, posting updates and pictures of their lunches on Facebook, and asking OnStar for precise directions from where they are to where they want to go.

What I don't get is why the government even needs to gather data. They could just update their friends list from time to time.

Because some people might want to keep some communications private, and for communications to be private by default. Hence, sharing is not by default.What people share is only a small slice of their lives.

Suckmaster Burstingfoam:Isn't the 4chan way to track down all the politicians' and spooks' home addresses and telephone numbers, then troll them IRL, get them fired and investigated for child porn, make threats against their families, and eventually drive them all to suicide?